Women's Development
Women bring many advantages to business and it’s important for women to know that their greatest strength is being themselves and playing to their strengths. Once, women thought to be successful they had to become more like men. That is not the case. Those who have embraced a feminine model of leadership have clearly demonstrated that they can be powerful leaders. Take our Governor-General, Quentin Bryce as an inspirational example. Being authentic is the key.
But for women to make their mark as leaders, first they have to be visible and get ahead to even be seen as a leader. Yet women in the workplace suffer many barriers to advancement. Many have a genuine lack of confidence; the model of leadership is stereotypically male and this cultural norm often permeates the culture and the psyches of many of the employees; there are very few promotional opportunities; and there is a distinct lack of female role models and mentors. So how do women get the opportunity to become leaders?
Put simply - it’s a top down, bottom up approach. Organisations need to provide the right culture and environment, the right education and training, and they need to enable opportunities for promotion and advancement to be created on level playing fields. Women need to take advantage of training and development to better themselves and step up and take those opportunities when they arise.
emberin is a provider of unique gender diversity programs that help organisations attract, retain and grow their female talent.
emberin’s flagship empowerment program for women is a powerful, self-guiding CD/DVD/workbook course that is both flexible and cost effective for an organisation to roll out to their female employees.
The program runs for 12 weeks. It features leading senior Australian businesswomen and organisational leaders on the DVDs, and advanced tips, tactics and templates on how women can foster untapped skills around some key areas they need direction and guidance in.
My mentor is a proven and effective mentoring tool that has delivered outstanding return on investments for organisations that have implemented and committed to it, dramatically impacting the promotion of women within their companies and departments. It has been recognised by the leading global body for the advancement of women in business – and the only Australian program to have received such an accolade. Over 10,000 women have completed the program and achieved significant goals – including career promotions, pay increases, greater flexibility at work and overcoming some major personal challenges.
To support our female mentoring and empowerment program emberin has developed my mentor for managers for both male and female managers.
This condensed program is designed to complement the learnings of women undertaking my mentor challenging women to make it happen. It will help Managers be better leaders of women and have a more rounded understanding of gender leadership. It also provides strategies for them on how to mentor women including tips and templates and specific information on differences between male and female styles.
It’s a great vehicle for managers to increase their engagement with their female team members.
This program helps working mothers or mothers-to-be and their organisation ensure they have a strong career post maternity leave. Maureen Frank brings her well known ‘no nonsense’, make a plan, approach to having the career you want and being a mother. As a single mother of twins, Maureen is certainly quite an expert on the subject!
This stand-alone program is for women who are planning to take parental leave, are on parental leave or who have just returned from parental leave. Women can do the my mentor parental leave program independently, or it can be done in conjunction with the my mentor – challenging women to make it happen full 12 module program.
The multimedia program provides an advanced short course that gives women the strategies on what to do whilst on parental leave and how to successfully transition back to work. It helps them face challenges, keep motivated and make their parental leave journey a rewarding and successful one!
Women’s Village, our sister site, is the ultimate portal for the working woman. It provides organisations with a fantastic opportunity to provide a holistic employee benefit to all female employees. By offering www.womensvillage.com to your staff, you are making a profound statement on how you value your female employees and how you recognise, understand and care for their life inside and outside of work. Quite simply you understand that happy and stimulated employees are motivated employees, are productive and high-performing employees.What’s more, with this innovative female employee benefit you have a compelling platform to attract and retain female staff which in turn will help you attract and retain female customers. On Women’s Village we provide a number of key career and personal aids for women including low-cost Masterclasses and Planning tools.
Membership to Women’s Village is free and there’s a lot of value to the free membership. Access to:
- Over twenty expert columnists covering women’s issues, personal development, career and learning, health, finance, relationships, home and lifestyle, parenting, and making a difference. Members will have the ability to access expert articles, find ideas and TOP 10 tip suggestions and participate in forum discussions.
- Online polls giving women the opportunity to voice their opinions on what matters most to them as a woman. And, we’ll marshall that voice so that the people who need to hear actually listen.
- A social networking site giving women the ability to connect and find other talented women who can help their life in a myriad of ways.
- The low-down on great places for women to work.
All organisations have to do is sign-up to be a Women’s Village partner and promote Women’s Village to your staff.
Available on Women’s Village, these are twenty-minute insightful interviews with leading experts, geared for women with practical tools on topics that cover the whole of life. A few of our guests include:
- Naseema Sparkes, President of Chief Executive Women, on leadership
- Kate Southam, Your Career Plan
- Alison Triffett, Your Personal Style
- Kate Southam, Getting the Job you want
- Lisa Butler, Becoming a great networker
- Natalie Isaacs, Australian women and the environment
- Rosie Simpson, Helping Australians worse off
- John Frame, Investing in Property
Masterclasses provide timely soundbyte learnings and are priced according to various package breaks.
This best seller is the ultimate feel-good motivational book for the working woman. Maureen has gathered a "cheer squad" of high profile business women. Together they guide readers through their personal journeys. Along the way they will cover many of the questions that aspiring business women are not sure who to ask: examining what success really means; dealing with difficult career road bumps and personal hardship - and how to cope; strategies for changing careers; risk taking; nannies and childcare; female saboteurs - how to identify and deal with them; the working mum's survival guide; taking time for yourself; mentors and role models and the framework for one own personal plan for success. The cheer squad includes Ros Kelly (former MP), Launa Inman (MD Target), Rhonda White (Founder, Terry White Pharmacy Group), Teresa Gambaro (former MP) and Elizabeth Broderick (Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner).
These are ideal for the corporate woman looking for tools to help her breeze through the challenges that arise on the home and work front, making it easier to manage her time and life.
Downloadable templates for time management, goal setting, week-end planners, shopping lists, holiday planners, budgets, as well as the e-books 52 Tips on Being Organised and 52 Tips on Being Resilient – all reasonably priced and available from Womens Village.
What’s the right solution for your organisation? Where do you start?
It you want to develop leadership potential in your women, expand your talent pool, have measureable metrics that you can publicise to meet your own company, ASX and other objectives, my mentor is the solution for you. It is a proven program which has been used by over 10,000 women throughout Australia and has contributed to Telstra’s 2010 Catalyst award-winning success. Make no mistake about it: all Australian organisations can substantially benefit from implementing my mentor.
If you want to provide your women with a knock-out employee benefit, keep them engaged before and after doing my mentor, then womensvillage.com can be part of this solution. It provides extensive value free of charge to your women.
Plus, by being a member of womensvillage.com your women will be able to able to take advantage of a host of low-cost, high-value offerings that will dramatically enhance their personal and professional lives. These offerings include Masterclasses, e-books, tools and templates that you as an organisation may decide to fund or part fund.